Steve Moneypenny Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 The WV State IDPA championship may very well have just made history. It was a very good 10 stage match with one indoor and 9 outdoor stages. It included strong hand, weak hand, free style stages (most of them from concealment) some akward positions i had not shot from before (that says a lot with my experience) 2 stages including prone, one that required a roll over from prone. Things that aren't often tested in shooters but are good solid skills to make a well rounded pistol shooter. Match director Lew Siccorsi and Tom Halvassa ( assistant MD wether given that title or not) did a great job with the logistics only one stage had a small back up and that stage even finished ahead of schedule. Official results are not up yet. but a new upstart IDPA shooter James Meyers took the SSP division now the scarry and possibly historical fact He shot the match CLEAN! 0 down for the entire match, Which included many hard cover targets and one mover that was quick! Besting the largest field of masters in the match including myself (2nd place) and Aaron Roberst ( of team blackwater) third. To top all of this off James was too nice of a guy to even hate... guess i'll have to work on my accuracy 26 points down ( which included a miss on the swinger and one into hard cover) One final note. There is a newly minted Lady master she was moved up by winning SSP Expert division!!! I'm not sure if that has ever happened before either. Thanks to Lew and all of the match staff, and as an SO thanks to all of the shooters for being patient with us on a somewhat slow moving stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvb Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 (edited) a new upstart IDPA shooter James Meyers took the SSP division now the scarry and possibly historical fact He shot the match CLEAN! 0 down for the entire match, Which included many hard cover targets and one mover that was quick! Besting the largest field of masters in the match including myself (2nd place) and Aaron Roberst ( of team blackwater) third. To top all of this off James was too nice of a guy to even hate... guess i'll have to work on my accuracy 26 points down ( which included a miss on the swinger and one into hard cover) -0 Congrats! James pushed me to "1st loser" at this years MD State match. Unfortunately due to time crunch and being in the middle of moving I had to shoot w/ the staff and did not get to meet James (I was supposed to work that match, too, but couldn't). IIRC he shot very few points down there, too. [i made a LOT of mistakes at that match, had been travelling until late the night before. Almost didn't even go... regardless had I not made the goofs I had, James still would have bested me. I think he was 10 seconds or so faster in the final score! Gave me a good schooling in the importance of points, though! ] -rvb Edited August 5, 2008 by rvb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Burwell Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Mr. Meyers has been handing my butt all year also. I think he has won most accurate shooter in every match he has entered and now has figured out how to do it faster. He is a heck of a nice guy, I too wanted not like him but it is pretty much impossible if you ever talk to him. I gave up and decided I would try and figure out how to help him (at least that way I can say I had something to do with it) hopefully by IDPA nationals we will have him shooting a M&P. He is on a mission this year and I am certain he will accomplish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfie Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 I shot with him at the PA match. He's certainly fun to watch and again, he's a real nice guy. Congrats Jim if yru reading this. Who was the Lady shooter? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanCdp Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Official results are not up yet. but a new upstart IDPA shooter James Meyers took the SSP division now the scarry and possibly historical fact He shot the match CLEAN! 0 down for the entire match. -0 Congrats! sounds like the win was well deserved...O down/along with DC is something to behold...GOOD JOB!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j2fast Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 What is this zero down you speak of, I thought this was a mythical beast like the Sasquatch or Unicorn.... :lol: Seriously though, that's fantastic, congrats to James. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMoore Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Who was the Lady shooter? Cindy Bowser if I hear correctly. AKA: Hipowering Along Congrats to Mr Meyers, his accuracy at speed is sickening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted August 5, 2008 Share Posted August 5, 2008 Looks like he cleaned up at the Marietta, OH GSSF match too.... Winning four divisions and a second place finish in a fifth division. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted August 6, 2008 Author Share Posted August 6, 2008 Good to see you around Flex. We were talking about that He said he has won an insane number of glocks ( in the high 20's) and he's only been really shooting for a couple of years. Looks like you need to get your butt on the ball man hitt a couple Glock matches rake in free guns! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flexmoney Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 I didn't know that GSSF Masters could shoot more than StockMeister and Unlimited. And, I thought they had a limit of one gun that could be won per match? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glshooter Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 While they can only win one gun, they can now enter the competition, subcompact and majorsub classes as well. Any wins after the first one gets you $100 per category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted August 6, 2008 Author Share Posted August 6, 2008 yeah that's what we were talking about after the IDPA match it's an awesome match... where else can you go, Shoot and even have the possibility of walking away with $700-800 in cash and prizes? Hopefully he will sign up as a member here, I told him this would be a great place to sell stuff he got off the prize table. And that there were a lot of great shooters and even better people on here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSEMARTIN Posted August 6, 2008 Share Posted August 6, 2008 Hey Steve, Glad to hear from you. Are you saying James Meyers shot a clean match.....with a GLOCK? Wow!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted August 6, 2008 Author Share Posted August 6, 2008 YES he shot a glock Chris .. good to see you too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1911onr Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 Results are posed on the club website: here Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GmanCdp Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 a rather odd result was that ALL the SSP masters won all of the stages.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted August 7, 2008 Author Share Posted August 7, 2008 that's not odd... that's just where the talent was this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
revchuck Posted August 7, 2008 Share Posted August 7, 2008 a rather odd result was that ALL the SSP masters won all of the stages.... Yeah - somebody 'splain to me again why the Classifier times are longer for SSP than for CDP and ESP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 Old logic ... it was before people had glocks with 2.5 pound triggers and people thought the Double Action shot slowed things down. since IDPA's invention look at the absolutely amazing strides shooters have made. When i started and was trying to make master... the "norm" was a 2.00 failure drill.... a one guy did one in 1.36 and everyone was amazed sayign it couldn't be toped i've done them in low 1.2's and I am not even fast. So times change. I think they should all be dropped to about 80 for master.... or another greater than master classification. .. like PTMWG class.. (plays too much with guns) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobMoore Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 When i started and was trying to make master... the "norm" was a 2.00 failure drill.... a one guy did one in 1.36 and everyone was amazed sayign it couldn't be toped i've done them in low 1.2's and I am not even fast. Man, I knew I needed practice, but damn. I'm a newly minted SSP MA, and 1.2 is how long it takes me to make just a headshot at 7 yards, let alone throw two -0 bodies on there beforehand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Moneypenny Posted August 8, 2008 Author Share Posted August 8, 2008 That IS standing there working drills pretty hard. Not on demand by any means. I can run them 1.6 ish if i'm warmed up..... The good thing is work on other stuff and those little things will coem along.. I went from a 1.9 to about 1.5 (all warmed up just repeating the drill) without even pacticing THAT drill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PPC Eljay Posted August 8, 2008 Share Posted August 8, 2008 Jim Meyers is an NJ State Trooper, don't run, youll only die tired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtmtnbiker98 Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Jim Meyers is an NJ State Trooper, don't run, youll only die tired. Yes, but he's a true gentleman, a perfect match couldn't have happened to a nicer individual. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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